Iga and Koka Ninja Skills

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A retainer of our doman, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washing his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alterab His prayer was thus: qPlease afford me success in war.q He kept to this routine all through his life.' Through patient and scholarly detective work, Antony Cummins and the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team have unearthed a Shinobi treasure. The 18th-century military historian Chikamatsu recorded the oral traditions of the Ninja and passed on those skills in lectures he gave at his Renpeido school of war in Owari domain during the early 1700s. Chikamatsu wrote specifically about the Shinobi of Iga and Koka, regions from which warriors were hired all over the land in the days of war. The lost scrolls are filled with unknown Shinobi teachings, skills that include infliltration, assassination, explosives, magic and commando tactics, including an in depth commentary on Sun Tzu's famous 13th chapter, 'The Use of Spies'.The bulk of this translation is of this manual and is made up of the collected skills
and oral traditions of Iga and Koka from the respective lines and schools that
Chikamatsu studied under. Each article is given a name and an explanation of
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Iga and Koka Ninja Skills

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Antony Cummins, Yoshie Minami

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The History Press - 2013-01-31

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